New submission from Lucas Clemente Vella:
As stated in RFC 3548:
Base encoding of data is used in many situations to store or transfer
data in environments that, perhaps for legacy reasons, are restricted
to only US-ASCII [9] data.
thus, I was surprised to see, when I used base64 for the first time in python
3, that the encodig result was bytes, not str. Well, if I am encoding something
to base64, I am most certainly needing it as a printable ASCII string, not as
an binary byte array.
Thus, I suggest that the output of:
base64.b64encode(data)
to be, instead, the output of:
base64.b64encode(data).decode('ascii')
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 188786
nosy: Lucas.Vella
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: base64 encoding result should be str, not bytes
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.3
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